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  • Teaching Children to Self-Entertain

    Teaching Children to Self-Entertain2

    Teaching children to self-entertain is key to traditional parenting. While I totally understand the desire to occasionally use technology and screens as “babysitters,” shouldn’t parents aim to instill more sustainable and healthier alternatives? In comes teaching children to self-entertain! Essentially, self-entertainment means kids keeping themselves appropriately occupied while a parent’s attention is elsewhere. As much

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  • Teaching Children to Recognize Propaganda

    Teaching Children to Recognize Propaganda1

    When the pandemic hit, school went online and learning seemed to be thrown to the wind. As the pandemic stretched on, many teachers were loath to return to the classroom because of apparent COVID fears. Parents began to question whether teachers were really concerned about or eager to foster their children’s learning, especially as they

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  • Teaching Children to Embrace the Difficult Delights of Life

    Teaching Children to Embrace the Difficult Delights of Life23

    I browsed the shelves for as long as my mother would allow when I visited the library as a child. When her patience – or our available time – finally petered out, I brought seven or eight books up to the library counter to check out – a healthy mix of historical fiction, fantasy, mystery,

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  • Teaching Children To Be Unbiased Is Impossible

    Teaching Children To Be Unbiased Is Impossible0

    A comic from NPR caught my eye the other day. Promising to tell parents “how to raise informed, active citizens,” the scrawled images and text stressed the importance of civics and made several recommendations on how parents can work instruction of this topic into everyday life. The suggestions range from using fun and games, to

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  • Teaching Children Manners: Is It Still Worth the Effort?

    Teaching Children Manners: Is It Still Worth the Effort?0

    Teaching kids manners can be a grueling process, which is perhaps why many parents today give up on it. Mother Barbara Spindel, writing for the Washington Post, is one of those parents. Despite believing that manners are important, she has grown more tolerant of her 9-year-old boy’s lack of them. Among his issues: he “eats

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  • Teaching Children ‘No’ in the Era of #MeToo

    Teaching Children ‘No’ in the Era of #MeToo0

    Children aren’t born knowing what no means. You have to teach them. But how? For starters, you have to know what it means yourself. Most people seem to think no means something such as: “I say no and the other person will obey me because they will realize the sacredness of my person.” While that

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